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Title: Phonics 101
Post by: RTFM on August 26, 2008, 10:07:03 AM

OK don't know why this on is stuck in my craw, but here we go.
I always though Glock and HK POLYGONAL barrels were pronounced

Pall-E-gone-L

But recently in a gun shop and on TV I have heard them pronounced as

Poll-IG-On-Al (Poll-IGuana-On-ALbert)

So which do you think is correct?
I'm sticking wtih Pall-E-gone-L

My brain hurts sometimes and I'm the cause.

*sigh*

R

Title: Re: Phonics 101
Post by: Big Frank on August 26, 2008, 10:47:04 AM

Well, a pol-y-gon isn't pronouced po-yl-gon or po-lyg-on so I don't know why they would pronounce polygonal any differently. But that's the way the online dictionary I checked said: po-lyg-o-nal and po-lyg-o-nal-ly. I'll just say polygon and avoid using polygonal and polygonally when possible. You can hear it here: http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?polygo02.wav=polygonal

Title: Re: Phonics 101
Post by: Pathfinder on August 26, 2008, 09:41:36 PM

OK, all the bold type and hypens made my eyes hurt, and it is too late and I am too tired.

What the Merriam-Webster link said is how I have always said it. But then I really liked math in HS and went through geometry, trig, algebra and a little calculus - very little actually.

Title: Re: Phonics 101
Post by: Big Frank on August 27, 2008, 05:39:20 AM

That sounds a lot like a guy with too many wives.